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| Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
Achiever ’08, a litmus test for college students
An inter-collegiate skill testing event
Tiruchi: It might be perhaps your academic scores that will
help you get a spot in the job arena. But skills like leadership,
group dynamics and adaptability matter the most to sustain and
succeed in the profession.
Rotary Club of Tiruchi Midtown provided a litmus test to the
college students to help them rate their skills at Achiever
’08, an inter-collegiate skill-testing event. First assessment
was in the lines of the popular ‘Are you smarter than
a fifth grader,’ a talent hunt show of Star World. For
a change though, 71 students from 21 colleges were tested on
their 10th grade general knowledge and logical reasoning.
‘Off the cuff,’ an extempore that assessed the communication
ability of the students, followed the written test. Twenty-four
top performers were selected for the second round, which was
held on Sunday at Hotel Royal Southern.
They were given a list of self-assessment questions. While posers
like ‘who is your role model?” seemed a cakewalk
for the students, catch lurked in questions like ‘give
us three reasons why you should be hired by a company’
and ‘do you believe in freedom and what it means to you?’
Filled-in profiles were passed on to the four-member panellists
of interview, who grilled the students on their reasoning abilities.
The participants were split into four groups, named after various
Indian achievers. The groups picked up two topics related to
burning issues and the students spoke for and against each topic
at ‘Hard talk.’ ‘Catch 22,’ a management
game, tested the skills of students on situation analysis and
creative thinking.
Other events like ‘Broken Square,’ a management
game to gauge the team building attitude of the participants
and ‘Fried Beans,’ a quiz programme, weighed up
their all-round skills. By topping in all events with good number
of points, Dheer Vora, a student of National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi,
was adjudged as Mr. Achiever ’08 and Angelin Ezhilan from
Saranathan College of Engineering as Ms. Achiever ’08.
Mr. Vora will take part in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
camp to be held at Kodaikanal this month end.
District Governor 3000 P. Dhamodharan inaugurated the event
and District Governor, 2010-2011, T. Valliappan distributed
prizes to the winners. President of the club N.B. Khannan Ayyar
and Chairman of ‘Achiever’ K. Panneerselvan spoke.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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